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> As someone working in security, the phone is an extremely leaky thing and very bad for privacy to begin with.

Compared with a computer where every program can steal all your data?




A computer doesn't follow you around. It also doesn't have a ton of built in sensors (accelerometer, dual cameras, microphones, gps).


Yet the biggest trade secrets will only accessible via a computer when they have certain DLP policies in place which lock down the machine to the same effect that iPhones are locked down, only with the company’s own trust store. The iPhone is Apple bringing this level of lock down to consumers, but with safeguards that prevent the user from adding completely untrusted code (only when you use Apple Business Manager+MDM can you deploy in-house apps without review).


> only when you use Apple Business Manager+MDM can you deploy in-house apps without review

Incorrect and never was true that that was the only way or even the common way.




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